Health Plan Work Group comments on the association health plan (AHP) provisions in Title IV, Subtitle B of the Bipartisan Patient Protection Act (H.R. 2563), which would amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to establish a new “Part 8—Rules Governing Association Health Plans. (
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High-Risk Pools Work Group testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee on using health care tax credits to decrease the number of uninsured individuals. (
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Health Practice Financial
Reporting Committee report to the NAIC on areas of appearance of inconsistencies among the various sources of accounting guidance and industry practice or variation by legal entity. (
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Genetic Testing Issues Task Force issue brief seeking to help policymakers and the public better understand the risk classification process in the long-term care and individual disability income markets. (
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Managed Care Reform Work Group issue brief assisting policymakers in understanding the scope of applicability of proposed pateient protection legislation and the ability of enrollees to file legal action against their health plan. (
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Academy comments on the proposal developed and approved on a preliminary basis by the NAIC’s Speed to Market Working Group that pertain to the definitions of “minimum experience and education requirements” for actuaries contained in the preface to the proposal. (
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Task Force on HORBC comments that offer a counterproposal regarding the redesign of the Property & Equipment page. The counterproposal would achieve the objectives of attaining compliance with the new Health blank and reducing the amount of data collected, and it would leave the NAIC working group flexibility to make a change to the HCDA risk factor in 2001. (
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